On 31 May 1999, SL Baur wrote: > [#2. None of the messages I've emailed to XEmacs-related mail lists > today has returned to me, here goes again.] > > Justin Vallon <vallon(a)mindspring.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > > > I'm trying to build 21.1.2 on HP using HP's cc. xemacs gets dumped. > > However, when src/xemacs is first run (as part of lisp shadows), it hangs, > > and can't be interrupted, killed, or kill -9'ed. > ... > > There is badness[tm] somewhere in the Motif/CDE code in XEmacs. I > cannot get a build on Sun/Solaris to work properly either. Before you > get rid of this binary, try `xrdb </dev/null' first. > > I have found that I cannot start an XEmacs on Sun/Solaris with Motif & > XIM/Motif support *and* specify a font via X Defaults without getting > a coredump deep in the initial frame initialization. Weird ...

After 'xrdb -load /dev/null', it still did not work.

[ I was not getting any core dumps, though, if that was your symptom ]